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We’ve seen the “cop on the run with an endangered witness” plot before, but with Reese Witherspoon as the cop and Sofia Vergara as the witness, things take a couple turns that are probably new to the genre. Hot Pursuit casts Witherspoon as a straight-laced, possibly inept cop who is charged with escorting Vergara, the widow of a drug dealer, to a safe location. The first Hot Pursuit trailer shows all sorts of antics as the two attempt to survive the journey.

Anne Fletcher (The Proposal, 27 Dresses), directs, and Hot Pursuit also features John Carroll Lynch, Rob Kazinsky, and Richard T. Jones. (Oh, and Jim Gaffigan, whose cameo kinda steals the trailer.) The film looks like a big comedy with a little bit of action — maybe in the vein of Heat, with a little Midnight Run thrown in. It’s fun seeing Witherspoon being loose and kind of goofy, and the film throws her personality against Vergara’s Modern Family-honed approach to comedy, maybe to good effect.

Hot Pursuit will be released on May 8. Trailer via People.

An uptight and by-the-book cop (Reese Witherspoon) tries to protect the sexy and outgoing widow (Sofia Vergara) of a drug boss as they race through Texas pursued by crooked cops and murderous gunmen.

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Which Sopranos actor joined Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D? What’s the latest update on AMC’s Preacher? How many more movies does Samuel L. Jackson have to make for Marvel? Want to see a new still from Daredevil? What did Margot Robbie and Will Smith about the script to Suicide Squad? Are there lots of cool new Batman and DC figures coming out soon? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits.

Yes, yet another cool piece of Avengers: Age of Ultron art with Vision fighting the bad guy, via TonyStarkSincero and SHH.

Sopranos star Drea de Matteo has joined Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Samuel L. Jackson told IGN he only has two more movies on his Marvel contract, but he hopes to extend it.

Superhero Hype reports the people casting AMC’s Preacher want an African-American actress for Tulip O’Hare.

The first tease of the penultimate episode of Agent Carter from Marvel.

Gamma Squad has some new plot information on the new DC Comics crossover Convergence.

My Dad, he used to come to this church…he was a fighter…lost more than he won…but he always got back up. pic.twitter.com/8KkDNSCwdk

— Daredevil (@Daredevil) February 12, 2015

Marvel released this still image from the Daredevil trailer.

IO9 has some good ideas about how the Infinity Gauntlet will be adapted for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Due to the amount of graphics and images included in Superhero Bits, we have to split this post over THREE pages. Click the link above to continue to the second page of Superhero Bits.

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Chilean director Alejandro Amenábar, who directed Open Your Eyes, The Sea Inside, and The Others, goes back to dark atmospheres once again with Regression, which stars Emma Watson and Ethan Hawke. (You’ve seen the picture above, so you probably knew that.)

We find their characters in Minnesota in 1990, where Watson’s character accuses her father and others of coercing her into some unspeakable deeds. Hawke plays a detective investigating, and David Thewlis plays a psychologist who helps with the inquiry. Now we’ve got a Regression teaser, and a great poster, both of which you can see below.

There’s almost certainly more to this case than what this teaser shows, and the story seems to draw on a few different instances of real-world crimes and paranoia. The ’80s and ’90s accusations of parents involved in Satanic ritual abuse clearly factor into this, as do other cases of accused and proven mass sexual abuse. So is Watson’s memory of a black mass something that has been induced, or that she created to deal with other abuse, or is there some legit Satanism at play here?

Regression is set for release on August 28. David Dencik, Lothaire Bluteau, and Devon Bostick also appear.

Trailer via YouTube.

Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner (Ethan Hawke) investigates the case of young Angela (Emma Watson), who accuses her father, John Gray (David Dencik), of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned psychologist Dr. Raines (David Thewlis) is brought in to help him relive his memories and what they discover unmasks a horrifying nationwide mystery.

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Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 36 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness.

Header Photo: A fan drawing of Emma Watson as Belle from Beauty and the Beast

BEYOND NARRATIVE: THE FUTURE OF THE FEATURE FILM by Roger Ebert

13 Mistakes From Your Favorite Kinky Comedies

The Little Mutant t-shirt

4 Made-Up Movie Languages That Aren’t Made Up At All

5 Coolest ‘Space Cowboys’ of All Time

Calligrapher of the Rings

Vince Vaughn Says ‘True Detective’ Season 2 is ‘Very Different’

The Depressing Part of ‘Better Call Saul‘ You Didn’t Notice

Graffiti Hunter t-shirt

Is Theatrical Distribution Still Essential?

Inside Out! pic.twitter.com/lUWNjiAw2m

— Michael Giacchino (@m_giacchino) February 12, 2015

Scoring Pixar’s Inside Out

Amy Pascal Talks Getting ‘Fired,’ Sony Hack and Angelina Jolie Emails in Candid Interview

16 Behind-the-Scenes GIFs of Famous Movies You Can’t Un-See

Why ‘Birdman’ Will Be MIA at the WGA Awards

Frames Inside Frames: A Mesmerizing Supercut of Passageways

John Travolta in Talks to Star in Vigilante Action Movie ‘I Am Wrath’

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I love this image of James Franco, but he’ll probably look a bit more dignified when he travels back in time to stop the killing of John F. Kennedy. The pic above is from the last time the actor was involved in an assassination story, when he was the one potentially doing the killing. Now he’s changing sides. Franco is now set to star in the 11/22/63 TV series, which Hulu will air as an adaptation of the novel by Stephen King, produced by J.J. Abrams’ company Bad Robot.

In the 2011 novel by King, a Maine-based high school teacher is shown a time portal hidden in the back of a diner. The man who shows him this portal — which always sends anyone who travels through it back to 1958 — had planned to use it to prevent the assassination of JFK.

But that first guy’s poor health made the job impossible, and so he passes the responsibility on to the teacher. But there are problems with the plan, not least with the fact that time doesn’t really want to be altered.

The Wrap reports Franco’s starring gig as the teacher Jake Epping, and says he’s a producer on the nine-hour “event series.”

The 11/22/63 TV series will air on Hulu, but as a production is based at J.J. Abrams‘ Bad Robot Productions. Bridget Carpenter (The Red Road, Friday Night Lights”), who will write and executive produce the series.

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